Kirk Minihane, Rob Bradford and Alex Speier are back once again with the Hot Stove Show, this week they talk to Red Sox GM Ben Cherington about offseason negotiations with players like David Ortiz and Cody Ross. They also talk with Scott Boras about the other side of free agency negotiations.

pitching (and/or posting) market, from the inability to find a fifth starter last year to the likes of John Smoltz , BradPenny , Daisuke Matsuzaka , the first three years of John Lackey's deal. Dempster, early in his Red Sox tenure, has been

well in recent years when dipping their toes into the free-agent market for starting pitchers. Lackey, Aaron Cook , BradPenny , John Smoltz , Bartolo Colon , Matt Clement . . . It’s a long list of failures. The Sox have a pitcher who represents

recalled the treatment former teammate BradPenny received as a young pitcher from former ..... He would go to the media every time Penny would pitch and he would be like ‘He ..... was. I think it just started with Penny having a bad outing or something

immensely impactful seasons and careers. Failed bets included Wade Miller (2005), Wily Mo Pena (2006), John Smoltz and BradPenny (2009), Jeremy Hermida (2010), and a long line of players that ingloriously and forgettably marched

the Sox have also seen pitchers returning from injury flop. Notable recent instances from the 2009 season include BradPenny and John Smoltz , both of whom were signed to significant fanfare and returned to health but had poor results that resulted in their

starters.” A couple years ago, the Sox invested in multiple veteran buy-low options coming off of injuries, signing BradPenny and John Smoltz to one-year deals. Both returned to health, but nonetheless flopped in Boston; both, ultimately

Wakefield has gone 0-2 with two no-decisions in those four games. To put that run in context, no Red Sox starter since BradPenny in 2009 has been winless in four straight games in which he allowed four or fewer earned runs and pitched at least